Open-hearth furnace.



N0. 655,|39. l Patent'ed July 3|, |900. S. T. & C. H. WELLMAN4 J. W. SEAVEB. OPEN HEABTH FUHNACE.

(Application filed Oct. 24, 1898.) (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet l.

No. 655,139. Y Patented .luly 3|, i900. s. TQ 8L C. H. WELLMAN & J. w. SEAVVER.

OPEN HEARTH FURNACE.

(Appucation mea oct; 24, 1898;) (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 mz @um Prrsns co. moro-mno.. wumamm n. c4

No. 655,|39. Patented my 3|, |900;

S. T. &. (.2. H.. WELLMAN J. W. SEAVER. OPEN `HEAITi-l FURNACL (Application med oct. 24, 189e.; (No Moda|.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 3.

No. 655,!39. Patented July 3l, 1900.

S. T. C. H. WELLMAN &. J. W. SEAVER.v

(IP EN HEARTH FURNACE.

(Application led Oct. 24, 1898.) (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 4.

No. 655,|s9. Patented Jury Vsu, |900.

s. T. & c. H. wl-:LLMAN e. J. w. sEAvEn.

oPx-:N HEARTH FunNAc.

(Application filed Oct. 24, 1898.) (No Model.)

NITEU STATES- PATENT- OFFICE.

SAMUEL rr. w'ELLMAN, CHARLES H WELLMAN, AND JOHN w. sEAvEE, oE CLEVELAND, oHIo.

oPEN-HERTH FFURNACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,139, dated July 31, 1900.

Application Ela, October A24,l isst. sain No. 694,444'. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that We, SAMUEL T. WELLMAN,

CHARLES H. WELLMAN, and 'JOHN W. SEA-Y VER, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, Ohio, have invented certain ImF provements in Open-Hearth Furnaces, of which the following is a specification;

The object of ourinvention is to so construct an open hearth furnace as to materially increase the strength and durability of the same as compared with present` constructions. This object we attain in the manner herein# after set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a transverse section of an openhearth furnace constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one half of the furnace. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the other half of the furnace. Fig. 4 isa plan or top View of one half of the furnace, and Fig. 5 is a sectional plan of the other halfyof. the furnace.

The metallic shell of the furnace consists of a box or tankthe cross-sectional form of which is trapezoidal-p-that is to say, the tank is wider at the top than` at the bottom, the sides having a slight outward flare from bottom to top. This tank is lined with lire-brick or other refractory material, as usual, and has an ordinary acid or basic bottom for action upon the metal contained in the furnace, the roof being arched transversely, as shown in Fig.` 1, and also, by preference, arched slightly at each end, as shown in Fig. 3. The bottom of the tank rests upon transverse beams 1, disposed at suitable distances apart throughout the length of the furnace and secured at their opposite ends to longitudinal girders 2, which extend throughout the length of the furnace and are secured to and upheld by transverse supporting structures 3, which, as shown in the drawings, are composed of heavy castings, preferably of steel, as many of these supporting structures being employed 'as the size and weight of the furnace may suggest, two being employed in the furnace shown in the drawings and each 'of them presenting a convex under surface, so that it can rock upon its supporting-pedestal el in order to permit of the tipping or tilting of the furnace for the purpose of discharging its contents through the usual pouring-spout. In the furnace shown in the drawings this tipping or tilting operation is eifected by means of hydraulic cylinders 5, one of which is pivoted to each of the pedestals and has a piston with rod 6, connected to suitable brackets on the furnace-casing;

but other means Aof tipping the furnace may.

The sides of the furnace-casing are braced and stiifened by means of buckstaves 7, composed of ordinary I-beams or channels and so disposed throughoutthe length of thefurnace as to impart the desired degree of strength thereto, the upper portions ofthe buckstaves on opposite sides of the furnace being connected by transverse beams 8, which as to their under faces conform to the arched top of the furnace, as shown in Fig.`1, so ,that they not only serve to connect the opposite buckstaves together, but also to stienand strengthen the arched top ofV the'furnace and prevent the same from losing its proper shape or being destroyed by the action of the heat, tending to force upward the crown of the arch. The buckstaves 7 are connected together at the top by external longitudinal channel-bars 9, and the transverse braces S are also connected by means of longitudinal angles 10, so as to increase the stiffness and rigidity of the furnace-carrying structure.

By reason of the outwardly-flaring form of the sides of the furnace structure thelateral dimensions of the furnace are increased from bottom to top with corresponding increase of capacity, and the buckstaves support the furnace more effectively than they would if they were vertical, and a more effective anchorage for the arched top of the furnace is secured. The buckstaves 7, interposed between the furnace-shell and the girders 2, serve to form air-spaces 11 between said furnace-'shell and the girders, which air-spaces serve to protect the girders in a measure from'the heat ofthe furnace, this object being further attained by providing the girders with linings 12, of suitable refractory material. These airspaces also add greatly to safety of the longitudinal girders in the event of a burn out of the fur- IOO v' dinal girders 2, thus providing an extremely A portions of the furnace and flue. structure .Water-.cooled frames or casin gs 16 and 17 servnacebottom,.which would permit escape of the molten metal from thefurnace. It will be observed that the entire weight of the furnace is borne by the transverse supports 3, their supporting function being trans' mitted to the Abottonu girders 1 and V,bucks staves 7, through the medium of the,1'Qng,i, tu A strong, rigid, and durable metallic supporting structure for the furnace. Y e As shown in the drawings, the furnace is' structure 22j, having lrollers 13, mounted uponl suitable rails upon thepxedflue structure 14 at the ends of the furnace,s"o'that the said movable liuc structures can be drawn back .out of contact with the ends of the furnace when itis dsiredto tipor tilt the same, suitable ing to prevent such heating of the meeting as would cause `the refractory material to Vfuse together; v The joints between the lues in the fixed flue structure 14C and those in the movable iiue structure 22 are closed by water seals of such character as not tointerfere with the desired movement of the flue structure 22. Themode of constructing and mounting the movable flue structures, however, forms nopart of our present invention.v

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent.` 1. An open-hearthfurnace having at the base transverse vstructures resting upon the furnace-supports', longitudinal side girders connected to the ends of said vsupporting structures, transverse base-beams alternating i withthesupporting structures but not restingupon the supports, and upright buck#` staves-at the sides of the furnace, said buckstaves and base-beams being secured to the longitudinal side 'girders whereby the latter 1 serveas the-mediums for conveying the Weight ofthe furnace to the transverse supporting structures, substantially as specified.

2. An open-hearth furnace having at the basetransverse structures resting upon the furnace-supports, longitudinal side girders connected to the ends of said supporting ,eonnetingpportions of opposite buekstaves Vwhich project above the roof of the furnace,

substantially as speciiied.

An open-hearth furnace having a roof arched transversely to the length of the furprovided at each end with a movable flueM nace,- buckstaves at opposite sides of the furnace projecting above the arched roof thereof, and transverse braces connecting said projecting portions 'of said buckstaves, said transverse braces having concaved under faces which conform to,"and' have a Abearing upon,the transversely-arched roof, aridlserve toretain the same Yin shape, substantially as specified. 'j

4.. .An open-hearth furnace having "transverse supports, intervening transverse basebeams, yupright buckstaves at vthe sides of the furnace, and longitudinal side girders serving to connect said transverse supports to the-base-beams and buckstaves'sa-id `transverse Y supports having convex" under 'faces mounted upon fixed pedestalsso asto permit of the tippingor tilting of thefurnace, ,substantially as specified.

5. An open-hearthfurnace havingtransverse base-girders and supports, uprightbuckstaves at the sides, deep longitudinal plategirders secured to the outer sides of said buckstaves, and also to the'base structure of the furnace, so'that air-spaces` intervene between said girders and the furnace shell'or'cas'ing, and a refractory lining for said airfspaces, whereby the .deep lplate-girder is protected from theheat .of 4the furnace, substantiallyas specified. y

In testimony whereof We have signed vour names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL T. WELLMAN. CHARLES I-LWELLMAN. JOI-IN W. lSEAVER.`

Witnesses: C. W. .CoMs'roc`K,

JOHN M. GEORGE. 

